Rural Autonomy Research Articles

Intangible Cultural Heritage Boosts Rural Revitalization: Dilemma and Way out

The dilemma of intangible cultural heritage has become a short board of rural revitalization, but it can be alleviated by the favorable policies of rural revitalization. The sustainable development of intangible cultural heritage is an important part of rural revitalization and an effective driver of rural revitalization. The two help each other. Huaiji county Qiaotou town provincial intangible cultural heritage Guier Opera popular in the middle of the 20th century, after entering the 21st century Guier Opera facing times change, inheritance, insufficient funding, insufficient publicity, lack of research, in the national protection and development of intangible and rural revitalization of the policy gradually under the good, from three aspects of culture, talent, governance power Qiaotou town rural revitalization. Studies have shown, build a digital information platform for Guier Opera, create forms and contents that are popular with young people, and integrate sound and photoelectric technology into the performance, which can meet the diverse spiritual and cultural needs of the local people and promote the revitalization of rural culture. The government can strengthen the support for Guier opera troupe and the inheritors, and the inheritors can constantly improve their performing arts quality, cooperate between schools and counties, and strengthen the support of talents, which can promote the revitalization of rural talents. By performing and publicizing national policies, laws and regulations, and showing the new look of the countryside, the repertoire can strengthen the villagers' sense of ownership and enhance the ability of rural autonomy.

A study of Clan-based Offences and Their Governance from a Cultural Perspective

Deformed clan culture is the influential factor of collective corruption, group fighting, clan evil force and so on. Moreover, it may also cause problems such as destroying rural autonomy, hindering criminal investigation, illegal criminal private settlement criminal, etc. However, clan culture has two sides, which can produce moral introduction, condense criminal struggle consciousness, improve governance standard system and so on. Historical research has found that the governance effects produced by clan culture are strongly correlated with the state's treatment of clans. Clan culture may have a two way affects both in crime and crime governance, and it needs to be adjusted in the context of modern rule of law. Clan culture should be guided towards benign development, avoiding cultural conflict and promoting benign interaction between State law, State subjects and clan norms and organizations, so as to optimize the effectiveness of the governance of clan-based crime.

Research on the Practical Approach of Rural Governance from the Perspective of “Fengqiao Experience”

Rural revitalization cannot be separated from a harmonious and stable social environment. In the process connecting poverty alleviation with rural revitalization, the public security situation has taken on new features, new changes have taken place in crime patterns, and the people have new expectations. The study takes the criminal case of three deaths and three injuries caused by a homestead dispute in a village in Fujian Province as an example and analyzes the pain points of rural homestead dispute governance in the new era, such as the obvious trend of intensification of rural homestead disputes, the insufficient mediation measures at the grassroots level and undesirable results, and the increase of the complexity of problem due to the intervention of public opinion. This paper analyzes the difficulties faced by rural governance, such as the impact of economic interests on the stability of the rural autonomy, the lack of grassroots governance, the settlement of homestead disputes, and the intensification of the situation due to moral constraints. On this basis, a practical approach to realize rural governance is proposed.

Credit, land and survival work in rural Cambodia: Rethinking rural autonomy through a feminist lens

AbstractThis article explores the trajectory of three rural, precarious Cambodian women as they deploy land as a means of undertaking survival work in Cambodia. Using a gendered lens vis‐à‐vis the concept of autonomy, this article rethinks distress sales of land and collateralized land for microfinance borrowing as forms of everyday autonomy. By highlighting women's central role in undertaking social reproductive labour to reproduce the rural household, these acts of distress land sale and debt‐taking are understood as forms of ‘survival work’, acts that ensure the day‐to‐day survival of the household and form the basis for broader projects of autonomy. Although we remain ambivalent about the long‐term prospects for resistance through credit‐taking in particular, we ultimately highlight the need for greater attention to variegated oppositional agency in the path to autonomy to understand the gendered labour of everyday survival in rural life.

Spiritual Inspiration of Village Cadres and Inclusive Innovation of Bricolage in Rural Autonomy in China.

In the rural autonomous context of China, inclusive innovation of bricolage is a widespread phenomenon. However, the existing research rarely considers villagers as the main actors of innovation. In a research survey of 23 provinces in China, we studied the internal mechanism of inclusive innovation of bricolage. We found that the spiritual inspiration of the village cadres is positively related to inclusive innovation of bricolage behavior of villagers. Moreover, the results revealed that affective commitment to the village of the villagers plays a mediating role in the relationship between the spiritual inspiration of the village cadres and inclusive innovation of bricolage behavior of villagers. In addition, our findings reveal that resilience of villagers plays a moderating role in the relationship between the spiritual inspiration of the village cadres and inclusive innovation of bricolage behavior of villagers.

Rural development policy and strategy in the rural autonomy era. Case study of Pandeglang Regency - Indonesia

Rural development policy and strategy in the rural autonomy era. Case study of Pandeglang Regency - Indonesia

Rural development policy and strategy in the rural autonomy era. Case study of Pandeglang Regency – Indonesia

Rural development policy and strategy in the rural autonomy era. Case study of Pandeglang Regency – Indonesia

Paradigmatic policy change or unintended subordination of rural autonomy: the case of source water protection in Ontario, Canada

In May 2000, E. coli originating from nearby agricultural lands contaminated the municipal water supply of Walkerton, Ontario. As a result, over two thousand people became seriously ill and seven people lost their lives. In response to this crisis, source water protection emerged as part of a multi-barrier approach for the provision of safe drinking water. Intervention at the source provides an early opportunity to contain a range of potential risks, many of them tied to land-use. However, source water protection involved a fundamental shift in Ontario’s policy approach to the provision of safe drinking water. In doing so, it mobilized powerful actors to defend their interests against this change. This study traces how the problem was defined in Ontario, and by whom, establishing a continuum of actor–institution interactions that spans the development and implementation stages of the Clean Water Act (2006), and shows how different preferences were carried forward through the devolution of decision making to the watershed level. By disaggregating the policy change into its constituent parts, and accounting for actor effects at the implementation stage, we observe that decentralization in the context of sustained political pressure led to an effective concentration of decision-making power, thereby actually eroding local control. Caution is thus warranted when considering the devolution of decision making to inclusive social processes, as this may link policy subsystems and thereby create the institutional channels through which special interests can dominate decision making.

House-in-the-Village for Escape and Survival: Utopia of Rural Autonomy in the Popular Futurology of Disasters

House-in-the-Village for Escape and Survival: Utopia of Rural Autonomy in the Popular Futurology of Disasters

Intergration Between Modern Laws With Living Laws In Rural Comunities In The Rural Economic Development

The purpose of this study is to find and analyze the integration between state modern laws and the living laws in the village, in its relation with national economic development and to find and analyze the ways to optimize national economic development through rural autonomy. The research method used is normative juridical, using legal material. The integration between state modern laws and the living law in the rural communities is by giving attention and accommodating the living laws in the rural communities especially in the economic order in the village including the establishment of Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDes). In the formation of rules or laws relating to the economy or village empowerment, it should not only be juridical aspect that is prioritized but the philosophical, and sociological aspect of rural communities needs should be used as foundation . Reflection on the Pancasila understanding is also very necessary. This is because Pancasila is transformation result of various legal principles in Indonesia, Optimizing village economic development through rural autonomy by making improvements, and empowering all the potential of the village in particular the human resources and natural resources.

The Mechanism and Empirical Study of Village Rules in Rural Revitalization and Ecological Governance

Village rules are an important normative form of rural autonomy and play an important role in rural governance. In the construction of a country ruled by law, it is necessary to attach great importance to the value of the village rules and to further improve the status of the village rules. The full play of the role of the village rules is to make full use of the village rules in rural governance. The current village rules play a huge role in the revitalization of the countryside. The village rules can integrate rural economic, political, cultural and other resources. This article introduces the positive impact of the village rules on rural revitalization from many aspects. The rural revitalization under the guidance of the township has the functions of democratic participation, economic coordination, cultural inheritance, and social stability. The article lists examples of many rural villages in China. According to the requirements of the scientific development concept, we have analyzed in detail the positive impact of the village rules on ecological environment governance. The main reasons for the active role of the village rules are collective participation support, recognition of the legal system, support of the ecological environment, promotion of national cohesion, and changes in the rules of village rules. Finally, we propose suggestions for optimizing the role of village rules in rural revitalization and ecological governance from both the subjective and objective levels. First, the villagers should be highly involved, and then the grassroots government should focus on building platforms to participate in grassroots autonomy. While the government is helping to establish the village rules, it can also intervene in the formulation of village rules, so that the village rules are part of the grassroots informal legal system. Subjective and objective joint efforts can make the village rules develop continuously and contribute to building a harmonious society.

Relevance and Implementation of Rural Funding Allocation in West Pasaman Regency after the Law of No. 6 year 2014 on Desa

The issuance of law no. 6 year 2014 on Desa reinforces the rural authority on managing its financial affairs leading to rural autonomy. However, since the implementation of ADD dan ADN in West Pasaman Regency, some issues have still been identified. This research aims to find out the relevance and implementation of ADD funding allocation in West Pasaman regency after the law no. 6 year 2014 on Desa. This research uses qualitative approach with the key informants of all wali nagari (village heads) in West Pasaman selected by using snowball sampling technique. Data were collected through documentation, interview, and observation. The findings of the research reveal that planning and fund allocating of ADD in nagari (rural area) of West Pasaman have generally run properly. The implementation of ADD is implemented well. The relevance of rural funding allocation with regent’s policy No. 122 year 2016 in Pasaman has been achieved. However, the problem is still found in the implementation of ceiling fund.

Rural Industry Clustering Towards Transitional Rural-Urban Interface

Rural industrialization seems to be attractive for policymakers looking for counter-urbanization efforts – and nowadays peri-urbanization forces – in line with growing decentralized autonomy of local Indonesian authorities. To promote better rural development, an extended growth pole strategy has been introduced as well as an agropolitan approach and its derivatives. In fact, there is little evidence for their success; rural autonomy remains elusive instead. However, institutional capacity of rural authorities and organizations still fails to deliver rural development initiatives properly. This research was aimed at examining this issue by looking at rural industry clustering in the Greater Solo Region, Indonesia as a response against extended urbanization in peripheral regions. The study focused on batik industry clustering in the rural periphery of Solo City, which provides a transitional rural-urban interface necessary to drive rural independence. Having inherited the batik tradition underpinned by an agriculture-led peasant society, the rural batik industrialization has reinforced the socio-economic transition from a purely agrarian society to a mixed rural-urban society. This study employed an explanatory sequential mixed-method approach, where a quantitative spatial analysis was used to identify the expansion of urbanized areas in villages, and a qualitative case study analysis to figure out the socio-economic shift in rural livelihoods. The results showed that physical spatial changes in these villages do not conform to the socio-economic change into an urban industrial society in a substantial way. Rather, the local villagers preserve an informal economy to support the existence of a mixed rural-urban livelihood.

Measured Implementation of an Accelerated Chest Pain Diagnostic Pathway in Primary Care

Aim: To assess the efficacy, safety and feasibility of implementing an Emergency Department Assessment of Chest Pain Accelerated Diagnostic Pathway (EDACS-ADP) using a current generation point-of-care cardiac troponin (POC cTn) assay for rule-out of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting to rural General Practices in the Midland region of New Zealand with suspected cardiac chest pain. Method: The EDACS-ADP was implemented and evaluated in twelve rural Midland general practices. The primary outcomes assessed were the number of patients identified as low risk managed without transfer to hospital following presentation and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) (myocardial infarction, death, cardiac arrest, revascularization, shock, arrhythmia,) at 30 days. Results: Between October 2016 and March 2018, 142 patients with chest pain of suspected cardiac origin entered the pathway. 69 (49%) were male, mean age of 56. Over half were considered low risk, managed and discharged home by primary care. Low risk were more likely to be younger (mean age 53 yrs. v 63yrs). No MACE was noted in the low risk group. 1 in 3 patients were assessed as non-low risk and referred to hospital with MACE rate of 15%.Tabled 1Number30 days MACELow Risk80 (56%)0Non Low Risk46(44%)7(15%) Open table in a new tab Conclusion: This rural chest pain pathway has the potential to identify a low risk population who may be safely managed locally thereby reducing transfer to hospital and allowing more rural autonomy, benefiting both patients, and secondary and tertiary health care services.

Renewable Energy and Rural Autonomy: A Case Study with Generalizations

Renewable Energy and Rural Autonomy: A Case Study with Generalizations

PARTISIPASI MASYARAKAT PADA PNPM MANDIRI PEDESAAN DALAM KONTEKS OTONOMI DAERAH (STUDI KASUS DI KAMPUNG PEPAS ASA KEC. BARONG TONGKOK KAB. KUTAI BARAT)

Participatory rural development program is a fundamental concept that has been releasing at long time ago and still be relevant in the future. Citizen participation in development was increased, and it leads to social welfare. To empower a member of society, government has declared the National Program of Society Empowering, Rural Autonomy which was implemented since 2007. The study results indicate that the degree of citizen participation in the PNPM activities at Pepas Asa Village is relatively low. Therefore, absolutely it is required to improve of society participation by optimizing the awareness activity and effectively socialization; and give prioritiy to capacity building of apparatus and citizen, not only to infrastructure development.

Chinese Rural Bribery: The Plight of Rural Grass-Root Democratic Autonomy

Rural autonomy is playing an important part in the rural grass-root democratic construction. Rural bribery is becoming one of the main barriers in new Socialist Countryside Construction, which gets the grass-root democratic autonomy in puzzledom. The paper is based on the experience of two different villages—G village in Inner Mongolia and Y village in Shanxi province, inducing and organizing the explanatory reasons and solving projects of rural bribery by researchers in recent years in doctrinal angle, discussed separately from the perspectives of institution study, economics and social capital theory. It tries to compare the advantages and disadvantages of various ways to establish a comprehensive governance framework for rural bribery.

Rural Autonomy and Popular Politics in Imperial Villages

Late medieval sources record over a hundred imperial villages without a territorial overlord. Apart from representation in the diet, their constitutional status resembled that of imperial free cities. Only a handful survived the early modern pressures of state formation and territorialisation. This essay examines the political culture and external relations of five rural communities which retained immediate ties to the emperor until the end of the Ancien Regime. Gochsheim and Sennfeld near Schweinfurt, Sulzbach and Soden near Frankfurt am Main and Gersau in present-day Switzerland exercised self-government with minimal external interference. Political regimes were relatively inclusive and integration attempts by neighbouring powers—often their official ‘protectors’—met with sturdy resistance. Communal statutes and chronicles, visual representation and copious litigation reveal strong attachment to the Empire, even at Gersau, where direct contacts ceased in the fifteenth century. Occasionally fierce inner tensions were balanced by the villagers’ pride in their collective freedom. Key imperial characteristics such as representative institutions, the authority of custom and jurisdictional means of conflict resolution scaled right down to the smallest units. More generally, the often overlooked case of imperial villages highlights early modern alternatives to centralization, the multilateral negotiation of local autonomy and the resilience of rural republicanism in the Holy Roman Empire.

Wind, sun and water: Complexities of alternative energy development in rural northern Peru

Drawing on recent research with NGO-driven projects in rural Cajamarca, Peru, we examine the paradoxes of relying on wind, solar and micro-hydro generation of electricity for rural community development. In spite of cost, vagaries of these energy resources and limited material benefits, especially with wind and solar systems, villagers are eagerly invested in these projects. While still desiring the power of grid electricity, local electricity is valued for how it illuminates shops and dwellings, extends the workday for children’s studies and women, and powers TV/DVD players and cell phones connecting households with the wider world. Electrification with small-scale renewable technologies blurs the urban/rural binary, tied as it is symbolically with ‘progress’, modern consumption styles and the trappings of urban life, even as these technologies paradoxically reinforce rural autonomy with electricity that is locally produced, with local resources.

A Wager on the Peasantry: Anti-Zemstvo Riots, Adult Education and the Russian Village during World War One: Stavropol' Province

SEER,Vol. 79,JJo.I, Januagy 200 I A Wager on the Peasantry: Anti-Zemstvo Riots, Adult Education and the Russian Village during World War One: Stavropol' Province SCOTTJ. SEREGNY INJanuary I9I6 a military court in Stavropol' decided the fates of sixty-three peasants from the village of Aleksandriia charged with violent rioting in November 1914. According to the indictment, the accusedhad incited a crowdof two thousandpeasantswhichforcedthe release of fellow-villagersarrestedfor an earlier disorder,set fire to a school, destroyeda trader'shome and store, nearlybeat to death their volost'(township) elder and fought a squadron of police sent to the village, resulting in several fatalities and many injuries.The tribunal sentenced four of the rioters to death and forty-sixreceived terms at hard labour or prison.' The severity of the sentences came as no surprise. Stavropol' Province, a rich grain-producing region which servedas a majorsupplypoint for Russia'sArmy of the Caucasus,had been under martial law since the beginning of the war. The military overlordsof the region, headed by the Tsar'sgreat-uncle GrandDuke Nikolai Nikolaevich, wished to underscorethe point that no disorders Scott J. Seregny is Professor of History at Indiana University, Indianapolis. This article benefited from perceptive comments by Corinne Gaudin, Robert Geraci, Tracy McDonald, Kimitaka Matsuzato, Daniel Orlovsky, Franziska Schedewie, members of the History Research Seminar at Indiana University, Indianapolis and the anonymous referees and editor of the SEER. Generous support from the International Research and Exchanges Board, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Office of Faculty Development at Indiana University, Indianapolis, and the Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, made the research possible. ' Severokavkazskii krai, 6 January I9I6, no. 4, p. 3; 22 January 1914, no. 17, p. 2; 27 January I9I6, no. 2I, p. 3; for a description of the events, see A. M. Anfimov (ed.), Krest'ianskoe dvizheniev Rossii v godypervDimirovoivoiny. ul' 194 g.-fevral 1917 g.. Sbornik dokumentov, Moscow-Leningrad, i965 (hereafter Krestianskoedvizhenie),pp. 131-36, and Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Istoricheskii Arkhiv (hereafter RGIA), f. i288, Op. 3, d. 6i ('Doklad Chlena Soveta Ministra Vnutrennykh Del d.s.s. Kharlamova i Upravliaiushchego otdelom zemskogo khoziaistva d.s.s. Bliumenau po komandirovke v dekabre 1914 g. v Stavropol'skuiu guberniiu'), 11.1-4, 29-30. A WAGER ON THE PEASANTRY 9I would be tolerated in the army's rear.2 Moreover, the events in Aleksandriiawere only the most extreme manifestation of a wave of discontent that swept the province in 19I4. Police counted more rural disturbances in Stavropol' that year than in any other part of the Russianempire and the province remainedvery unsettledinto I9 I5.3 The target of peasant protest was the zemstvo,an institution new to Stavropol'Province and intended by its sponsorsto bring the blessings of self-government and civilization in the guise of improved roads, schools and medical services to this backwardfrontier region. When the newly minted zemstvaconvened in late I913 they wasted little time settingup the kindsof programmespioneered by theircolleaguesin the 'old zemstvo'provinces. Despite the fact that peasants controlled the Stavropol' zemstva, much of the local population turned violently against the new institutions. Moreover, anti-Zemstvo protest was often expressed in the idiom of apocalyptic confrontation between the peasant community and outsiders. Rumours conflating the zemstvo and the antichrist seemingly more appropriate to times of mortal threats to peasant culture such as the civil war (i 9I8-2I) and collectivization (1928-32) served to mobilize peasant resistance and subvert the claims of outsiders on the peasant economy and rural autonomy. In addition, Stavropol' peasants utilized 'peasant monarchism' to similar ends. The dramatic events in Stavropol' thus reflect deeper patterns of peasant culture, mobilization and protest, but also the transformative power of the Great War. The episode also reflects on an old and probably unresolvable debate about the viability of imperial Russia and the likelihood of revolution by 1914; specifically the problem of nation-building by transforming peasants into citizens (or, to paraphrase Eugen Weber, 'making peasants into Russians'). While this 2 RGIA, f. 288, Op. 3, d. 22 ('Zametka o prichinakh nedovol'stva Stavropol'skim zemstvom'). This report was made by V. F. Polubinskii, a MVD official on the Mogilev provincial board (prisutstvie) for zemstvo and...